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As you all know there are not only "good" people on the net. Luckily we have some of these "bad" guys who are trying to create some extra loads on our servers to help our load testing process. :)

We know these kind of DoS (Denial-of-service attack) attacks already with some old experiences. There were some known solutions for some known types of these attacks. But starting from yesterday we have an interesting one which is known as Layer 7 DoS attack and we have some tough times now.

Here are some extra information about this type of attacks directly from one of the best load balancer tool F5 guys.

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 DoS Attack

Luckily we have a great hosting provider who helped to resolve the most of the issues and our sites are running again after some hours down period. I would like to thank to Edge Web Hosting and their great support team here again for their amazing work!

We would be very happy to hear also your experiences with these kind of DoS attacks. :)

Now it is the time to consider handling more loads on the servers with more sophisticated solutions ...

As I mentioned before Internet Explorer 8 beta is out. While testing I have surprised for some sites and how IE8 renders them.

Have you seen Adobe.com on Internet Explorer 8?

Here is a screenshot:



Where is the problem? :)

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These days I am evaluating some GPS devices and now I have a Navigon 7100 to test. It is an amazing device when you read the website for spesifications such as life time traffic update, reality view and rich POIs. Forums such as GPSPassion have also good reviews but I am not satisfied as I expected until now.

I had tried TomTom One XL, Garmin Nuvi 260W, Magellan Maestro 4050 and I have a real dillema to select one of them.

I have plan to drive LA from DC this summer and navigation device will be really important selection.

Do you have any experience that you can share with me?

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Do you know that you can get the beta version of Internet Explorer 8?

I know you can say "Who cares?" but still would be valuable for the design teams who generate some templates and would like to test them.

Here is the link for more information and download:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/

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